Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.Community health workers, elections officers, emergency managers, air traffic controllers, government meteorologists, US federal service photographers, and arts and cultural workers perform critical roles, though rarely receive public attention. Their stories told here help reveal this hidden world to provide a rare view of government service.

A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A one-dimensional yellow man steps out of a cinema screen, hoping to lead a three-dimensional life. A journalist goes on assignment to report the latest food trend, which turns ice-cream eating into an extreme sport. In Portable Curiosities, Julie Koh re-imagines our world with a dark, satirical twist. These 12 stories combine absurd humour with searing critiques on contemporary society – the rampant con...

Kit goes to school with her friends Harley and Vanya, and always tries her best at everything she does. Arlo is too loud, too close, just too... much. But when a moving van pulls up next to Kit’s house one weekend, Kit and Arlo find out they have a lot more in common than they thought. Join Kit, Arlo and their friends as they navigate school, home life and friendships, and learn more than a few things about how to get along.Kit and Arlo Find a Way: Stories about consent for 8–1...

This book summarizes the current state of research on strategic planning and offers an agenda for future research.The book edition comes with a new introduction that argues that strategising by public, non-profit and business organisations should be a major focus of research. Strategising is what links aspirations, capabilities, and implementation. Strategic planning should be viewed as one approach, but not the only approach, to strategising. A focus on strategis...

The fan-favorite couple from Netflix’s “delicious romp” (Slate) Love Is Blind share their engaging and accessible love advice for the modern world, the ups and downs they’ve experienced during their first years of marriage, and exclusive behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the pods.When Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed locked eyes for the first time, they were already engaged. They had no idea what to expect, having fallen in love across the divider...

The fan-favorite couple from Netflix’s “delicious romp” (Slate) Love Is Blind share their engaging and accessible love advice for the modern world, the ups and downs they’ve experienced during their first years of marriage, and exclusive behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the pods.When Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed locked eyes for the first time, they were already engaged. They had no idea what to expect, having fallen in love across the divider...

"The perfect prey, the perfect predator. This is not your typical love story. Lauren takes you on a wild ride with a dark and dangerous hero who will leave you breathless. The morally grey lines are blurred and you'll find yourself rooting for the unlikely duo to conquer their demons and find their happily ever after."-Ann-Marie Davis, author of The HarbingerHitched is a DARK GRAY hitchhiker romance and is DUET NARR...

Chaos.Control.In a broken mind, it's all merely an illusion.KaneI’m an interstate trucker who’s left hundreds of bodies behind him. She's a woman who’s running from her past. When she gets in my truck, she unwittingly becomes my next victim.I test her will to live, but the personalities behind mine have a different plan for her. They work to dismantle the fragile equilibrium I've struggled to maintai...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From Hannah Grace, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Icebreaker, sparks fly when a one-night stand becomes a summer of forced proximity as camp counselors.When Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay...

A sports reporter and a hockey player get up close and personal in an outrageously sexy romantic comedy by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Lauren Landish.When it comes to hockey, unflappable Maple Creek sports reporter Joy Barlowe is privy to a lot of behind-the-scenes locker room activity. Like stumbling upon Dalton Days in all his unabashed glory. After the muscled goalie goes on to score better than he ever has, he proposes...

This rodeo star's past is about to collide with his present, and the one woman he's never forgotten might be the one to tie him down for good—in this sizzling cowboy romance from the bestselling author of Wanted and the Silver Pines Ranch series.Rough, wild, and too charismatic for his own good, everyone thinks Hunter Black has lived an easy life. As an up and coming tie down roper, he’s a natural on horseback and a force to be reckoned with. At least, he ...

Performed with duet narration by Teddy Hamilton and Vanessa Edwin!The first rule of handling PR for a hockey team? Never hook up with a player.That shouldn’t be a problem since the last man on earth I want to give an image makeover to is our goalie. He’s infuriatingly hot, famously grumpy and lives to spar with me after every game. But shining up his rough edges is my path to landing the promotion I desperately need, so I grit my teeth and do my job. No matter how hard he m...